| 1976-03-27
The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
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| 1976-04-01
The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect hoax is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
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| 1976-04-04
Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
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| 1976-11-23
Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
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| 1976-04-11
The Apple I is created.
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| 1976-10-12
The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China.
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| 1976-07-27
Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
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| 1976-09-10
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
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| 1976-12-15
Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
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| 1976-07-19
Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
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| 1976-05-08
The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
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| 1976-11-08
A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
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| 1976-07-04
Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
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| 1976-12-01
Angola joins the United Nations.
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| 1976-02-20
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
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| 1976-06-14
The trial of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, begins at Oxford Crown Court .
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| 1976-08-18
In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
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| 1976-04-13
The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
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| 1976-07-10
The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
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| 1976-03-24
A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of Congo.
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| 1976-07-10
One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
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| 1976-08-12
Between 1,000-3,500 Palestinians killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
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| 1976-10-19
Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
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| 1976-09-19
Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
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| 1976-07-22
Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War
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| 1976-03-04
The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
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| 1976-05-24
The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
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| 1976-09-21
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
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| 1976-01-05
Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
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| 1976-08-21
Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
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| 1976-10-22
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
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| 1976-03-16
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
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| 1976-04-05
In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
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| 1976-07-29
In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
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| 1976-07-20
The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
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| 1976-02-15
The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national referendum.
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| 1976-07-21
Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
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| 1976-10-20
The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
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| 1976-01-12
The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
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| 1976-07-20
Vietnam War: The U.S. military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
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| 1976-12-05
The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
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| 1976-09-06
Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
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| 1976-07-31
Viking program: Viking 1 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
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| 1976-10-11
George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
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| 1976-03-24
In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
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| 1976-06-27
Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
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| 1976-06-05
Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
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| 1976-06-22
The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
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| 1976-12-03
An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
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| 1976-07-28
The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
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| 1976-07-17
History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
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| 1976-07-02
Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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| 1976-06-25
Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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| 1976-08-14
The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
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| 1976-05-06
An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
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| 1976-10-04
Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
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| 1976-06-16
Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
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| 1976-06-28
The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
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| 1976-03-09
Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
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| 1976-07-01
Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
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| 1976-02-24
Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
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| 1976-04-01
Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S..
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| 1976-11-15
René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
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| 1976-06-29
The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
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| 1976-12-26
The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
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| 1976-02-02
The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
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| 1976-10-06
New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
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| 1976-04-01
Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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| 1976-08-07
Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
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| 1976-03-26
Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
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| 1976-02-27
The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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| 1976-02-12
Actor Sal Mineo is stabbed to death in West Hollywood.
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| 1976-02-05
The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
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| 1976-09-21
Seychelles joins the United Nations.
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| 1976-03-03
5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
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| 1976-02-19
Executive Order 9066 is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
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| 1976-02-04
In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
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| 1976-10-13
A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
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| 1976-09-16
Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
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| 1976-10-06
Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
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| 1976-01-15
Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
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| 1976-08-08
As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.
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| 1976-04-07
Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
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| 1976-09-17
The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
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| 1976-10-06
Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on-board are killed.
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| 1976-07-17
The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
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| 1976-03-04
The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
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| 1976-08-06
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
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| 1976-10-13
The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
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| 1976-07-20
Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.
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| 1976-09-03
Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
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| 1976-07-18
Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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| 1976-01-21
Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
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| 1976-09-18
Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
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| 1976-12-02
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
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| 1976-11-19
Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
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